Today, Ryan is announcing $6 million in funding from Greylock Partners for his Internet infrastructure start-up, Panther Express.

At Panther Express, Ryan is partnering with fellow DoubleClick veteran Dwight Merriman, as he partners with Merriman in ShopWiki. ShopWiki and Panther Express, however, are run independently as separate, stand alone businesses.

In conjunction with the funding, Bill Helman, General Partner of Greylock Partners, will join Panther's Board of Directors. Helman said of Panther Express:

Panther Express is superbly positioned in a valuable and growing market. Businesses small and large are understandably eager to embrace a viable low-cost option for content delivery. With an outstanding team and a novel cost-saving infrastructure, Panther is a compelling alternative to existing CDNs.

While ShopWiki targets Web 2.0 social consumer intangibles such as “community” and “sharing,” Panther Express targets the straight forward needs of Web-based businesses to optimize their content delivery.

I spoke with Ryan about his plans for the Panther Express content delivery network.

Panther Express brings ten years of Internet delivery best practices to a CDN with top-tier performance and lowest-in-market costs. We allow companies who rely on the Internet to focus on growing their businesses, not their infrastructure and technology costs.

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